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hitaka5ever · 1 year

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How to tell you're being cheated out of a proper wage for fixed-price job listings

This requires a calculator and this very simple formula:

Total Payment Amount divided by Total Items equals Money Earned an Hour per item

(Example taken from an UpWork listing) The client offers you a fixed price of $150. At a glance, it sounds like a lot, but be wary of how many pieces of the thing they want to be done is (in this case, they wanted 68 fish images turned into vector silhouettes)

So using the formula provided, you would do this:

$150 divided by 68 images equals about (~) 2.5 dollars an hour (150 ÷ 68 = (~) 2.5)

Even if 1 fish image takes less than 10 minutes, you're still being cheated out of the right amount of money

Don't accept these offers. Doing so makes companies and individuals continue to take advantage of their workers. Don't be part of the problem

#this is one reason why artists are having a hard time being hired for work #bc artists charging so little for their work tells companies/individuals that you are willing to work hard for next to nothing #not to mention if they make money off what you made/ you don't get a cut of the profits #you could be making thousands or millions of dollars if you were receiving royalties from their sales #so say you designed a toy for a toy company and they sell millions/ if not billions/ of that product #and make thousands of dollars off your design #now does that sound fair to you? Bc I sure don't

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